Will and Guy's Twenty Fascinating Facts and Titanic Trivia

• The ship was loaded with only enough lifeboats to hold half of the Titanic passengers. There were 20 of them with a total capacity of 1'178 people; many lifeboats were lowered to the waters only half-full.

• Further facts on the Titanic indicate that the ship received information earlier regarding the presence of ice floes in the vicinity, yet continued to speed full throttle ahead towards tragedy.

• Among the property reported as lost on the Titanic were over ,3000 bags of mail and an automobile. 

• Each first class passenger paid a whopping $4,350 for a parlour suite ticket and $150 for a berth ticket. 

• The ship contained a heated swimming pool, a first for any sailing vessel. 

• The ship was still so brand new when passengers boarded it on April 10th, 1912 that some of the paint was still wet. 

• Every stateroom contained electric lighting and heat. 

• Of the 1,517 people of perished in the sinking of the Titanic, only 306 bodies were recovered. 

• The largest percentage of survivors came from first class passengers. 

• Even though directions have been given for women and children to board the lifeboats first, a number of men were reported as survivors while a surprisingly large number of women and children perished in the disaster. Most of the women and children lost in the sinking came from second and third class. 

• Sadly, Captain Smith had made plans to retire after seeing the Titanic safely across the Atlantic on her maiden voyage. 

• It cost $7,500,000 to build the Titanic. 

• It took three years to fully construct the ship. 

• Among the provisions when the Titanic set sail in Southampton, England were 40,000 eggs, 75,000 pounds of fresh meat and 1,000 bottles of wine. 

• The Titanic's total capacity was 3,547 passengers + crew. 

• The Titanic's weight fully loaded was 46,328 tons. 

• The Titanic was 882 feet/268 meters long. 

• There were 29 boilers on board of the ship. 

• The ship consumed 825 tons of coal in one day. 

• The top speed of the Titanic was 23 knots.